The Battles of Richmond Hill
by Penny Jackson, directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan

The Battles Of Richmond Hill deals with the struggles of a lonely widow, Sheila, who has begun to drink too much at her local beloved Irish pub.  She is having difficultly living on her own, and her grandson has come into the pub on this snowy night, to take her for a "sleepover visit" at an assisted living residence against her will.  I think this play is so important because it focuses on the very difficult time when a parent must face their loss of independence and agree to move on to a more dependent lifestyle, in a new and strange environment without family.

Rehearsals have been a whirlwind of collaboration, laughs, and revelation.

I love the show because it has tenderness, humor, as well as moments of deep sorrow and loss.   The evening is a real rollercoaster ride of surprises!  

Let the battles begin! 

HERE ARTS, 145 6th Avenue (enter on Dominick Street, one block south of Spring.)

April 26-28th @8:30 pm; including Matinee Saturday and Sunday @4pm
April 30-May 5th @8:30pm; including Matinee Sunday @4pm
May 8-11th @8:30pm

90 Minutes with no intermission.

To Purchase:  https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1008092 or call 212-252-3101

Cast: Jordon Ahnquist*, Mac Brydon*, Nora Chester*, Kevin Gilmartin*, Lindsay Ryan, Alan Safier*
Publicist: Emily Owens PR

Produced by 91 Central Productions in association with Anemone Productions
 Equity Approved Showcase
*Member of Actors' Equity Association

Next Up is "Bergen" by Steven Fechter as part of the Broadway Bound Theater Festival this August!  Set in the not so distant future, an angry and angsty Norwegian Rock band grapples with the state of America and their own brand's identity, while trying to move their music to the next level. Featuring the talents of Halle Charlton, Kent Coleman, Ty Corbin, Andrea Lynn Green, and Joe Jung*

There are original songs both created and performed by talented actors, along with fantastical moments of desire and danger.

Get Tickets: CLICK BERGEN

Four performances only:

Friday, August 10, 2018 / 8:30 PM
Sunday, August 12, 2018 / 1:30 PM
Sunday, August 12, 2018 / 5 PM
Monday, August 13, 2018 / 8:30 PM

Rosemary and Time, based on a true story, is about two women, working side by side in a school infirmary who discover a startling truth about one another. Set in Yorkshire England in the late 1970’s, with flashbacks to 1941, the two women unearth secrets from the past and come to terms with ghosts, old relationships and time.

The production is led by Broadway veteran, Judith Barcroft, whose Broadway credits include, Dinner at Eight, Mating Dance, Betrayal, Elephant Man, All God’s Chillun Got Wings, Shimada and Plaza Suite. The company features Kate Grimes (Stephen Spielberg’s upcoming film THE POST), Mary Kate Harris (I Create/Lincoln Center’s Clark Theater), Michael Markham (Mother Courage and Her Children with Meryl Streep/The New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park), Virginia Roncetti (A Brush with Georgia O’Keeffe/St. Luke's Theatre), Zoe Watkins (The Pigeon In The Taj Mahal/Irish Repertory Theatre), and introducing Eliana Grace Brenden (Diva Centipede in James and the Giant Peach), and Ciela Elliott (Occupied Territories/59E59)The creative teams includes lighting design by Kia Rogers, scenic and costume design by An-Lin Dauber, sound design by Megan Culley, stage management by Ashely Nickas, production photography by Gerry Goodstein, with Nancy Nagrant serving as co-producer.

Performances take place at the Paradise Factory Theatre Main Stage, 64 East 4th Street (between Bowery and 2nd Avenue).  For Tickets and Info: www.rosemaryandtimetheplay.com

Kathy Directs Readings of Six New Short Plays for Sheen Center Theater Festival!

Join us for an event designed to showcase the voices and skills of a new generation of Catholic playwrights.

The mission of the inaugural Sheen Center Theater Festival is to share the work of emerging playwrights with the wider industry and theater audience.

Plays and playwrights selected to participate in this first-ever playwriting festival are:

The Lepers by Daniel Damiano
Miss Ruby by Kelley Nicole Girod
Amends by Joe Hoover, S.J.
The Shooter by Kimberly Kalaja
The Drill by Laura Pittenger
More Human by Emily C.A. Snyder

The works will be directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan and produced for The Sheen Center by Kelley Nicole Girod.

Plays will be presented together on both Saturday, July 8th at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 9th at 2:00 p.m. in the Black Box Theater.

Running time will be 90 minutes.

The Sunday performance will be followed by an hour-long playwrights' panel at 3:30 p.m. with a tea and biscuits reception.

In an innovative performance, actors and musicians share the stage to tell the story of a young actress who leaves her rural Kentucky home for New York, where she is raped in a parking lot.

A struggling family discovers that a painting brought home by Grandpa George, a hero of WWII, is worth a million bucks... and was stolen from a victim of the Holocaust.